From front, Hailey Hendrickson, Terranaja Moore and Betsaida Marroquin tap away in a typing class at King Science and Technology Middle School. Eighth-grader Hailey Hendrickson taps away in a ...

While schools may be teaching touch typing because of the Common Core tests, the ability to use a keyboard is an important life skill, said Cathy Turner, a technology teacher at an elementary school ...